UK Guernsey Cattle

Genomics continues to crop up as the big posh word in the world of breeding but i believe the powers that be are missing the real problem and the continual decline in numbers is the biggest threat to the Guernsey breed, and hence total numbers of bulls attaining proofs. On our side of the pond there has been a hugh move on the coloured breeds in the past ten years and what is noticeable is that while the whole dairy industry contracts in the last 12 mths all the red breeds have increased the numbers of cows recorded EXCEPT the Guernsey Advertising pays and i would be interested to know if the other countries represented at the conference have an active policy of promoting the breed to their wider dairy industrys,in the UK apart from your site we have a policy of meeting up twice a yr patting each other on the back discussing what great strides the breeds making, yet these big improvements are kept secret. Little point in taking the breed to new levels of achievement and then letting it go extinct.